Games with siege gameplay

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Hader

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The Total War games are good for sieges, mostly. The AI is stupid as hell trying to fight in the city but otherwise sieges can be pretty fun. Rome and Medieval 2 did it best.
 

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EU III was kind of a pain in the ass because Paradox apparently thought "relentlessly chasing around a demoralized, 1 HP army" was some sort of realistic portrayal of medieval combat. A fight was never just over in EU III.
 

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Hader said:
The Total War games are good for sieges, mostly. The AI is stupid as hell trying to fight in the city but otherwise sieges can be pretty fun. Rome and Medieval 2 did it best.
The AI is laughably easy to outflank in cities. Almost never keeps a reserve and rushes to attack the first enemies it detects so it's easy to exploit with a simple spears forward/cav sweep to the rear.

Empire/Napoleon... well, they pretty much underlined why castles when out of fashion when true field artillery became common. Late in the game when you can have a fistful of mortars flattening everything and just enough rifle armed light infantry to discourage any attempts at messing with said mortars, seiges get very routine.
 

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Rome: Total War is my favorite game involving siege warfare, the rest of the Total War games don't play on my computers for w/e reasons.

If any further siege warfare games are developed they have to look at cultures and eras where siege warfare actually took place, you can't really go modern with that genre. I think that's why Rome was the best of the lot, just a perfect time for that sort of game.

That said, I think I'm going to try one of the Stronghold games now, they seem to be in good standing amongst everyone here who didn't say a Total War game.